LONDON'S WELL-DRESSED MEN. Beauty Gives Way to Clothes in the English Capital.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 404, 21 September 1889, Page 6

LONDON'S WELL- DRESSED MEN. Beauty Gives Way to Clothes in the English Capital.

Although tho London men aboub town are the best chossed in the world, bhere is little or no adoration of the male beauty. It is one of the most dillicult things imaginable to iind out the Englishmen who aie considered to be on the summit of fashion in the matter of clothes unless one knows them personally. Portraits of society women of all kinds and ranks are to be seen in profueion, bub never a portrait of a society man, unless he hippohsto hold some public oifice of prominence. English sweldom has a great deal of sameness about it. To begin with, the swell mu&thave a "title or boa military man, and as all titled Englishmen have something to do with the army, the militia, the yeomanry or the volunteers, all swells of the first water.are military officers of some kind. Before a young titled Eng lishman can be qualified to become a credit to hiti family and the British aristocracy, he must have been to Eton, to Oxfoid, and ha\e held a commission in the (iuards. It doesn'b mabber how long he holds the commission. Then, again, the personal appearance of the most-admired men of this type is apt to be wanting in variety. They run about six feet in height, have broad shoulders, deep chesta and comparatively small waists, for which three latter things the tailor may be partly icponsiblo, 1 Thoy, almost without exception, hhave all their face but the upper lip, where they grow as big and curly a moustache as possible. All the men who are pointed out to me were of this type. Thoy are bo be seen during the morning or afternoon walking slowly and majestically along Piccadilly, Bond-street, Pall Mill (where the clubs are), and a very lew other thoroughfares. Their dress on such occasions consists of a frock coat buttoned up, a glowing silk hat, patent leathei boots and trousers of wonderful straightnese, with a sharply-defined crease in fiontand behind, and all the lesser aibiclcs ot dress perfectly new and fresh.